'Gentlemen, all aboard!' ICT and party politics: Reflections from a Mass-eParticipation experience

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 287-298

  Federici, Tommaso ^a   Braccini, Alessio Maria ^a   Sæbø, Øystein ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Citizen involvement in politics; EDemocracy; EParticipation; Five Star Movement; ICT; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988268464     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2015.04.009     Document Type: Article

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